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NOAA plans to draw 5,000 daily radio occultation profiles from the COSMIC-2 mission.
NOAA is preparing to add radio occultation soundings from Spain’s PAZ satellite, which launched in 2018, to operational forecasts.
NOAA is preparing to add radio occultation soundings from Korea’s Kompsat-5 mission, which launched in 2013, to operational forecasts.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s VIIRS (Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite) provides nighttime imagery with a resolution of about 740 m per pixel and global nighttime coverage.
The plasma analyzer instrument funded by the U.K. Space Agency will be flown on a space weather mission being developed by ESA in coordination with a separate spacecraft that NOAA will develop.
The Advisory Committee on Commercial Remote Sensing (ACCRES) spent half of its day-long meeting at the Commerce Department on 2019-06-04 discussing NOAA’s 2019-05-14 notice of proposed rulemaking to revise commercial remote sensing regulations.
NOAA’s 2020 budget plan requested $3,000,000 for the Commercial Weather Data Pilot in 2020 and planned to spend $8,000,000 annually on the initiative from 2021 to 2024.
NOAA’s 2020 budget request includes $2,300,000 for a Joint Venture Partnership intended to bring in data from satellites flown by NASA and international partners.
NOAA requested $5,000,000 in 2020 to begin purchasing commercial radio occultation data for numerical weather forecasting.
NOAA seeks $10,000,000 in 2020 to explore opportunities to send hosted payloads on commercial satellites in geostationary and tundra orbits.
NOAA’s Joint Venture Partnership proposal is a $2,300,000 initiative to help NOAA ingest data from research satellites flown by NASA, the European Space Agency, and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.
NOAA requested $5,000,000 in its 2020 budget to purchase Global Navigation Satellite System radio occultation data for operational use.
NOAA completed the Satellite Observing System Architecture Study approximately 18 months before early 2018.
NOAA requested nearly $2,300,000 in its 2020 budget to work with NASA’s Earth Science and Heliophysics Divisions, other government agencies, and the commercial sector to leverage emerging technologies.
NOAA awarded contracts with a combined value of more than $8,000,000 in 2018 to GeoOptics, PlanetIQ, and Spire Global under the Commercial Weather Data Pilot to provide GNSS radio occultation data.
NOAA’s 2020 budget request included funding to develop infrastructure and capability to securely import, transfer, process, store, and use external data from commercial partners for operational use.
NOAA’s Satellite and Information Service requested nearly $17,300,000 in its 2020 budget for initiatives to explore data partnerships, small satellites, and advanced technologies.
The Operational Satellite Improvement Program involved NASA and NOAA each contributing $15,000,000 per year between 1973 and 1981 for technologies including sensors to improve NOAA satellites.
NOAA requested $10,000,000 in its 2020 budget for industry studies, analyses, and possible flight demonstrations of hosted payloads.
European satellites provide NOAA with observations east of GOES East.